MASSACHUSETTSPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareLossCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICLowResolved
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Faulkner Hospital
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Full breach record for Brigham and Women's Hospital and Faulkner Hospital →Brigham and Women's Hospital and Faulkner Hospital (MA) reported to HHS on 2011-08-03 a Theft/loss affecting 638 individuals. A workforce member lost an unencrypted external hard drive while traveling, containing ePHI including names, medical record numbers, dates of admission, medications, diagnoses, and treatment information. Breached information located on Other Portable Electronic Device. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action, including a new encryption policy and staff retraining.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified
⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed638 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
- Filed at
- Aug 3, 2011
- Raw hash
- f07a7fb156ebd720ca9b04ae0582c9837844e882485d0560505a5b3c69538314
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Brigham and Women's Hospital and Faulkner Hospitalnorm: brigham and women s hospital and faulkner hospital
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Brigham and Women's Hospital and Faulkner Hospitalnorm: brigham and women s hospital and faulkner hospital
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 638
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained assurances that the covered entity implemented corrective actions.
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: not extracted→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.